Summer

This summer was pretty great! There were a lot of things going on. Work was pretty much nonexistent during the summer because of the music festival season. Right now I am suffering financially because of the summer because I had pretty much no income but well what can you do! I was going through pictures on my phone and I will just share a few random moments from the summer here.

I spent a lot of time in my hometown Pori this summer. Hung out a lot with friends and family, even Mitsu visited Pori at one point. I also worked at the local music festival Pori Jazz, which is a big deal in Pori. Managed to see a lot of interesting well known artists like Hurts, Pet Shop Boys, Kelis and James Blunt. Most of my team members were so fun to be around too, so work didn’t even feel like work half of the time! 🙂 Also the Football World Cup was something I remember about the summer. I don’t usually care about football but I was rooting for Holland so I had to watch the games when things started to get exciting. 😀

During July I was talking about Tinder with a bunch of my friends and decided half-jokingly I would join since I actually heard some good stories about it. It was honestly fun at first and most of the guys I matched with that talked to be pretty soon wanted to meet up and it was obviously just for sex but I talked to some genuinely nice people also! Some of the guys I came across were pure idiots, but it would happen in real life as well. I went on three “dates” with three different guys and it was very interesting! The first one was really different from his profile photos but a nice guy. The second one was pretty much exactly like I imagined him to be but he was kind of pushy and acted like he had read a flirting book or something because the way he acted seemed so thought out and not natural.

The third guy was my match in my hometown Pori on a Sunday evening in the beginning of August. I had just decided I’d quit Tinder for a while since the whole attraction by first sight kind of bothered me but we ended up sending a few messages on Monday. I went out with my friend Christa to a local bar and what do you know, I actually saw him outside the bar saying hello to his friend. His roommate had not paid the electricity bill so he had to go to bar right next to hours to charge his phone and he asked me if I wanted to keep him company when my friend left. I went to the bar he was in and we got along really well. We hung out every day of that week except Friday when I had to go to work in Helsinki and well… That guy is my boyfriend now. 😀 We’ve been dating 1,5 months and now it’s pretty much 2 months since we met! So I would recommend Tinder, of course if you’re bothered by the shallowness of it then it’s not for you. Most people, both male and female seem to be looking for sex but as I experienced, there are some genuinely nice people on there too!

Here are two profile pictures of some random dudes on there I just had to share:

During the beginning of August we celebrated my sister’s boyfriend’s birthday at our friend’s cottage. This is something we’ve done for years but honestly the weekend this summer was the best one ever! We had such a blast, I will probably remember this weekend as one of the best ones spent with friends ever.

During the weekend in mid-August me and Joonas (Tinder guy no.3 and currently (but not then!) my boyfriend) went to Weekend Festival together with my friend Kipsu. As it was sold out and situated in an area with bad reception to begin with I couldn’t get a hold of Kipsu on Friday so we ended up partying alone together with Joonas. But we had a great time nonetheless! On Saturday we met up with Kipsu outside the area so we wouldn’t get lost and it was so fun to party together with her. I really enjoyed the festival, too bad I was kind of drunk on Friday and I didn’t find the stage where the DJ I most wanted to see played at :’D

Here’s a random video clip Kipsu took when she was on Joonas’s shoulders: (her screaming starts when he begins to jump :D)

Will definitely go again next year!

The rest of August I hung out in Pori, hung out in Tampere with friends, worked in Helsinki, drank beer, ate junk food and went back to my old workplace in Tampere since I had so little work in Helsinki.

That’s pretty much my summer in a nutshell! I socialized a lot since I had little work so in that sense the summer was great. On the other hand, with socializing comes money spending and if you don’t have a lot of work, there is no income. Sooooo, like I said, I am having financial difficulties at the moment but hey it’s all part of being an adult and enjoying life I guess?